The Home software also can display SMS communications and Facebook messages as "chat heads" that hover over a user's screen regardless of what app is being used, another feature that places Facebook at the center of consumers' online interactions, no matter the medium.
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Other games will roll out as part of the application as well, including features that take advantage of the new Facebook timeline feature and a trivia challenge, all of which are intended to engage fans until the premiere episode of the new series on January 27th.
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In an informal poll of my Facebook friends when this feature was first launched, just one (of those that saw the post) said she was willing to pay to get a post greater visibility.
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Make use of the alternate name feature on Facebook and LinkedIn that makes you searchable under a maiden name.
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The bug is ironically the result of a new privacy feature on Facebook.
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The new social network will be integrated into the dashboard of new models and will feature full Facebook and Twitter integration.
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For location check-ins, Facebook will feature a large map of destinations.
Post-IPO Facebook is trying to monetize a feature of basic human nature: our insatiable drive to connect with other people.
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Liu said that while testing the Buy With Friends feature, Facebook has found that more than 50% of test users chose to share a purchase they made on the social network with their friends.
Facebook launched a test version of its search feature in January and it is currently limited to select users who have set English (US) as their language.
To counteract criticisms of the changes, Facebook is also launching a new feature on its privacy page that lets users submit questions to its chief officer of policy, Erin Egan.
Google unveiled yesterday a Facebook rival feature called Google Buzz, which allows users of its email service, Gmail, to send messages, photos and videos to one another and to Tweet them out on social networking site Twitter.
In January, CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the News Feed as one of the three pillars of Facebook, along with Timeline and the new Graph Search feature, which is still in beta.
Over the past several months I have entered a myriad of life-events to my Facebook profile using their new Timeline feature.
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The new installation is being overseen by two Facebook IT alumni, and is expected to feature roughly one terabit of overall capacity.
The new installation is being overseen by two Facebook IT alums, and is expected to feature roughly one terabit of overall capacity.
This new feature was meant to cut down on a wave of aggressive friend requesting that had swept Facebook lately.
This new mention feature could be an interesting way for Facebook users to find out what the popular topics of discussion among friends are, by grouping the updates together.
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In Africa, Facebook has targeted the use of basic phones - known widely as "feature phones" - which are unable to display the full-featured site, but instead can use specially created variations of the network.
Most of the smart phones around the world had a Facebook browsing option has an important feature in their software.
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The new Facebook does indeed feature some dramatic changes, but you can rest assured that one of them isn't that the site will start charging you.
Slate points out that a giant number of the comments on governance page feature the much more simplistic hoax wall post that was circulating Facebook the other week.
However, the most frequent complaints about Facebook are changes to its user interface, most recently the introduction of the Timeline feature.
Specifically, a project called Facebook for Every Phone, which was launched following the company's acquisition of feature-phone specialists Snaptu, is central to its growth strategy in the region.
That said, there has been some grumbling about Facebook, most recently because of its decision to force people to adopt the Timeline feature rather than allow them to opt into it.
People were initially terrified that the new feature would unearth a whole lot of unpleasant skeletons, and users scrambled to clean up in the days before Facebook said the new profile would become mandatory.
Meanwhile, Facebook on Wednesday countered (indirectly) with news of its own, announcing a new feature that will let U.S. members pay to promote their posts to friends in the same way that advertisers do now.
This feature allows users to easily buy and send gifts to each other based on suggestions while Facebook keeps a share of the purchases made.
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Facebook says it was "testing" the feature and that it had not become a formal part of the site, despite the fact that it was available online on Monday.
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